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Of all of our adept indie-folk storytellers, American singer-songwriter Katy Kirby knows how to read people best. Whereas Andy Shauf instinctively understands social settings and Adrianne Lenker tries to condense the cosmic, Kirby thinks about small gestures. She’s capturing the things that remain unaccounted for in relationships –– the moments that barely get noticed. In...
Indie singer/songwriter Izzy Heltai is back later this week with his forthcoming sophomore EP, mostly myself again, out October 20th. The record follows after Heltai’s 2021 debut effort, Day Plan (5 Songs Written 4 the End of the World), and a subsequent year spent on the road, playing an impressive series of tour dates that included opening slots for The Mountain Goats, Bear’s Den, and Liza Anne.
Photo: Mike Luckett David Starr’s compelling voice has been honed not only by touring nationally and internationally with top performers, but by choosing songs by artists whose audible and philosophical voices are legendary. Touchstones, Starr’s new project, features John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery,” Jackson Browne’s “These Days,” Dylan’s “Gotta Serve Somebody” and nine other classics When COVID-19 stopped the world in its tracks, Starr looked back at the music that shaped his own experience and brought them back to new life in Touchstones. “Some of the songs I c...
Scene by phone. “That made me want to smash every acoustic guitar.” Ahead of the release of her first LP Cool Dry Place Friday via Keeled Scales Records, the Texas-born Kirby is reflecting on her time as a Belmont student and rookie songwriter during the peak of the folk revival of the mid-2010s. It was a scene she was on board with at first. “Big Mandolin got us all,” she jokes. “But with respect to The Lumineers — all the stomping and the clapping — I got tired of writing from that place. I knew that if I sang in my pretty girl voice, with my acoustic guitar in hand, I’...